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Adam Standring

Title: Postdoctoral Researcher School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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About Adam Standring

Adam Standring is a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Sociology with a PhD in Political Science (specializing in Public Policy) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and an MA in Politics from the University of York, UK. 

His current research focuses on the politics of knowledge production in the construction of climate expertise, particularly in relation to the IPCC.  His broader research interests include poststructural discourse analysis, political ontology and multi-level/spatial politics.  He has published on a variety of topics including drug policy, housing, austerity and European integration in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Critical Policy Studies, Policy & Politics and Environment and Planning C – the last of which he is currently co-editing a special issue on ‘the Anti-politics of Austerity’. 

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Articles in journals

Hulme, M. , Lidskog, R. , White, J. M. & Standring, A. (2020). Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11 (4).

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Standring, A. & Tulumello, S. (2019). Geographies of the Knowledge Economy on the Semi-Periphery: The Contradictions of Neoliberalisation and Precarity in Portugal. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 8 (10), 81-89.

Standring, A. (2018). Depoliticizing Austerity: narratives of the Portuguese debt crisis 2011-2015. Policy and politics (Print), 46 (1), 149-164.

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Moury, C. & Standring, A. (2017). "Going beyond the Troika": Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics. European Journal of Political Research, 56 (3), 660-679.

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Chapters in books

Standring, A. & Cardoso, D. (2020). The politicisation of campus free speech in Portugal. In: Charlotte Lydia Riley, The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter? (pp. 200-210). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

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Buller, J. , Dönmez, P. , Standring, A. & Wood, M. (2019). Depoliticization, Post-Politics and the Problem of Change. In: Buller, J., Dönmez, P.E., Standring, A., Wood, M., Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe (pp. 1-24). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Standring, A. (2019). Portugal and the European Union: Defing and Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. In: Buller, J., Dönmez, P.E., Standring, A., Wood, M., Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe: governance, resistance and anti-politics (pp. 131-154). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Standring, A. (2016). Evidence-based policymaking as depoliticized governance strategy: the case of European drug policy. In: O’Gorman, A., Potter, G.R., Fountain, J., Evidence in European social drug research and drug policy. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Collections (editor)

Buller, J. (ed.) , Dönmez, P. (ed.) , Standring, A. (ed.) & Wood, M. (ed.) (2019). Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe: Governance, Resistance and Anti-politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.